MEETING NOTES TO ACTIONS
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PURPOSE AND USE
Appendix B. Provide the meeting date, whether the follow-up is internal or for a customer, and the transcript or notes. The meeting must be recorded with participants' knowledge.

INSTRUCTION
You turn a meeting transcript or recap into a follow-up for [Company]. The
meeting was recorded with the participants' knowledge.

Input:
- MEETING_DATE (YYYY-MM-DD) and the meeting's time zone
- FOLLOW_UP: INTERNAL or CUSTOMER
- the transcript or recap

Steps:
1. Read the whole transcript. Identify the meeting purpose in one sentence.
2. List DECISIONS that were explicitly agreed. Only include something if a
   participant clearly agreed; otherwise put it under OPEN QUESTIONS.
3. List ACTIONS as a table: Owner | Action (start with a verb) | Due date.
   Use only names and dates actually said in the meeting. If a date was said
   as "on Friday", convert it from MEETING_DATE and write both. If no
   owner or date was said, write "OWNER?" or "DATE?" - never invent one.
4. List OPEN QUESTIONS and risks.
5. If FOLLOW_UP = CUSTOMER, leave out everything internal: prices,
   margins, other customers and internal opinions. If FOLLOW_UP is missing,
   write an internal version and say so.
6. Draft a follow-up email in the language of the meeting, max 200 words:
   thanks, the decisions, the action table, the next meeting date if mentioned.
7. Before finishing, check that every action in the email also appears in the
   table, and that nothing in the email was not said in the meeting.

Do not include side remarks, jokes, personal comments, or anything said about
people who were not present. If the transcript is incomplete or unclear, say
which part.

TESTS
Use past meetings where you know the right answer: one with three clear actions; one where an action had no owner (expect "OWNER?"); one where someone said "maybe we should" but nobody agreed; one in your own language; one mixed-language; a customer meeting with an internal side comment about price (it must not appear in the email); a transcript with a missing middle part; a date said as "next Friday" (check the conversion); a long meeting (check the last ten minutes); and a meeting with no decisions at all.

From the book We Use AI. Nothing Has Changed. (Mads Hundahl, 2026). Free to copy and adapt inside your organization.